WAR RELIEF.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4008, 14 August 1915, Page 4

WAR RELIEF.

AUCKLAND PROVINCE'S BIG EFFORT. M'GCU'STION THAT £250.000 WILL BE NEEDED. •‘A great effort must be made iu t!ie Auckland Province.” wrote Mr J. it. Gum-on. Mayer of Auckland. to the- W.iikohu Cmtr.ty Council yesterday. “to raise a fund sufficiently largo to augment the amounts which mavis' granted by the Groverument to those of our brave soldier lads who will be reiurirng home incapaeitated through wounds, and to heln the dependents of those v.ho have lost, or may lom'. tlieir lives. “Every soldier or d ’pendent in the l-'ro vmco should receive the same treatment, no matter whether he belongs to a wealthy tow n cr a poor district-. mid to ensure this it is necessary to have one—and only one—central fund for the Province, the organisation and details of which are now under discussion and particulars of which will be forwarded to vou shortly. “It- is suggested that a. sum of at least- £'250,000, of which a portion Las already been subscribed. “One means of aiding the fund is to induce every business firm and private individual throughout the province to use the Provincial . War Fund seal, which are sold in sheets of 12 for del or 2-1 for Is. Ihe Chairman said that personally lie was of opinion that Gisborne could provide tor its own wounded soldiers, the local fund could take all the cash they could spare. All their lames were knitting as hard as thev could go. and they had provided 20 beds at tne Gisborne Hospital for returning wounded New Zealanders. All tins came out of the pockets of the people. He had no objection to the war seal, hut- thought they should stick to their own fund. It- was decided to take the £3 10s worth oi seals, and the .individual councillors present all took a supply oi the seals. “